On tonight's episode of GTTV, Valve's Gabe Newell revealed that a beta for Big Picture mode would launch "soon." Big Picture mode, first announced in early 2011, would allow gamers to hook up their PC or Mac to their living room television - well, okay, it doesn't have to necessarily be in your living room, just wherever you've got a TV. Valve aims to offer "simple, easy-to-read navigation designed specifically for TV."

The episode of GTTV isn't available online yet (it's still technically on Spike TV on the east coast, if you want to catch the last few minutes) so we're going off host Geoff Keighley's Twitter account right now, but we'll be sure to update as more information is made available. In the meanwhile, go grab a rag and dust off that moldy old TV!